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Glo records 72% internet penetration

Telecoms’ company, Globacom has recorded the
highest data penetration among telecom operators in Nigeria, the company said
in a statement.

Globacom’s
data penetration is contained in the report covering the first three months of
year 2017 just released by industry regulators, Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC).

In the
industry report, Globacom recorded a total number of 27,021,200 internet users
on its network, which represents 72% of 37,328,827 subscribers on the network
at the end of the quarter.

The data
penetration rate of 72% recorded by the network is more than the industry
average of 59%. The total number of
internet users in the industry stood at 90,003,101 as at the end of Quarter 1
compared to a total of 152,216,763 subscribers in the industry.

The report
puts Etisalat as second with a data penetration of 68% as it had 13,008,481
data users out of a total subscriber base of 19,621,806.

Airtel came
third with 56% internet penetration. Data users on its network as at March,
2017,was 19,423,760, out of the total 34,656,605 subscribers on its network.

MTN recorded
the least penetration of data users on its network when compared with the total
number of subscribers using the network. Only 30,519,351 or 51% of its
60,391,959 customers subscribed to its data services.

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